RUSH: Here's David in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to tell you an interesting story I know you'll be interested in. It's the first time I heard your voice. It's way before. I'd never heard of you, and you were local in Sacramento. I happened to have been reassigned up here in Sacramento with the defense department, and I had just finished doing a big investigation on a huge scandal...

RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It's great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. How are you doing?RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.CALLER: All right, now. I'll just get to my question. I'm just a little aggravated on why aren't Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats? Because the way I see it, the people who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us. And what amazes me is no one is. No one is standing...

RUSH: Byron York from the DC Examiner: "Norman Eisen, the White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with investigators on the staff of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley at Grassley's offices Wednesday morning. The investigators wanted to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. According to Grassley, Eisen revealed very, very little, refusing to answer many questions of fact put to him....

RUSH: Debbie in Jacksonville, Florida, hi, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm a longtime listener.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: And I just... Over the past few days, with the uprising in Iran, I have heard nobody even mention that this could probably be because Iraq is free and that the people in Iran want the same freedoms. And of course no one wants to give George Bush any kudos for that, but I really believe that that's what's going on.RUSH: Well, you may...

RUSH: Julian Epstein has appeared on an NBC cable channel this afternoon, Julian Epstein, Democrat strategerist, he spoke about President Bush criticizing Obama publicly last night on Guantanamo Bay and therapy for the inmates there. The question: "Julian, give me your take on Bush speaking out now."EPSTEIN: Republicans have not have an effective national spokesman, the head of the RNC has been a bit of a joke, it's been basically Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney, two very unpopular figures, so the...

RUSH: Bob in Auburn, Massachusetts, nice to have you with us here on Open Line Friday on Thursday. Hi.CALLER: Rush, glad to get to talk to you. Big fan.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Big, big fan. You know, I want to run the health care thing by you. I think people are missing the whole point here and maybe you're not, because I try to listen as much as I can but sometimes I don't. Obama really doesn't care about health care at all. He doesn't care if it costs $10 trillion. It has nothing to...

RUSH: The New York Times has run a story on President Obama's poll numbers. Now, the headline has changed from when the story was first posted on the Internet last night. The headline last night to the same story I'm about to share with you was this: "In Poll, Obama Seen as Ineffective on the Economy." That was very late last night. By the time people got up today and read the website, the headline has been changed to this: "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care." When I saw this...

RUSH: Let's go back to February 22nd. I want you to hear me on this program. You know, I love going back to these archival sound bites of me. It's the only way I get to hear myself. You people get to hear me three hours a day. I'd have to listen to tape and so forth. But here's what I said, because people were asking me all over the place, "Hey, Rush, don't you really think it would be good if the US elects a black president? That's the end of racism! People could say we're no longer racist,"...

RUSH: Oh, looky here, Port St. Lucie. We have someone from Port St. Lucie, Florida. Heidi, I can't tell you how excited I am to have you on the program, hello.CALLER: I'm so excited to talk to you, too, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to paint Rush for President and Sarah Palin for Vice President on the back of my van, but my boyfriend won't let me. Anyways, what's Obama going do, chop our heads off if we don't wear underwear?RUSH: Well, it's not an Obama proposal. This is in Brooksville,...

RUSH: President Bush in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night said, "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States." He got huge cheers on that. "He weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba --" by the way, since so much of the media is now state-controlled and state-run, I just need to say...

RUSH: Is there one thing the government runs that makes a penny of profit? Is there one thing? They can't deliver mail with a profit. FedEx can, and does. They cannot run a railroad with a profit. Amtrak is a horrible money pit. I know even some of our favorite people love to ride the Acela train, the Speed Merchant from Washington to New York. But they're losing money and it continues to be subsidized. They can't run most states with a profit. California with its population and its natural...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You know, most people, when they read 1984, were scared. When Barack Obama read it, he started taking notes.""I'm thinking if I required every employee here at the EIB Network to wear underwear, I wouldn't know how the hell to check it. Well, Snerdley, you just can't make people drop trow." "I would not want anybody who would require payment to take care of their children to admit to being listeners to this program. It would mean,...

RUSH: Here's David in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to tell you an interesting story I know you'll be interested in. It's the first time I heard your voice. It's way before. I'd never heard of you, and you were local in Sacramento. I happened to have been reassigned up here in Sacramento with the defense department, and I had just finished doing a big investigation on a huge scandal...

RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It's great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. How are you doing?RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.CALLER: All right, now. I'll just get to my question. I'm just a little aggravated on why aren't Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats? Because the way I see it, the people who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us. And what amazes me is no one is. No one is standing...

RUSH: Byron York from the DC Examiner: "Norman Eisen, the White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with investigators on the staff of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley at Grassley's offices Wednesday morning. The investigators wanted to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. According to Grassley, Eisen revealed very, very little, refusing to answer many questions of fact put to him....

RUSH: Debbie in Jacksonville, Florida, hi, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm a longtime listener.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: And I just... Over the past few days, with the uprising in Iran, I have heard nobody even mention that this could probably be because Iraq is free and that the people in Iran want the same freedoms. And of course no one wants to give George Bush any kudos for that, but I really believe that that's what's going on.RUSH: Well, you may...

RUSH: Julian Epstein has appeared on an NBC cable channel this afternoon, Julian Epstein, Democrat strategerist, he spoke about President Bush criticizing Obama publicly last night on Guantanamo Bay and therapy for the inmates there. The question: "Julian, give me your take on Bush speaking out now."EPSTEIN: Republicans have not have an effective national spokesman, the head of the RNC has been a bit of a joke, it's been basically Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney, two very unpopular figures, so the...

RUSH: Bob in Auburn, Massachusetts, nice to have you with us here on Open Line Friday on Thursday. Hi.CALLER: Rush, glad to get to talk to you. Big fan.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Big, big fan. You know, I want to run the health care thing by you. I think people are missing the whole point here and maybe you're not, because I try to listen as much as I can but sometimes I don't. Obama really doesn't care about health care at all. He doesn't care if it costs $10 trillion. It has nothing to...

RUSH: The New York Times has run a story on President Obama's poll numbers. Now, the headline has changed from when the story was first posted on the Internet last night. The headline last night to the same story I'm about to share with you was this: "In Poll, Obama Seen as Ineffective on the Economy." That was very late last night. By the time people got up today and read the website, the headline has been changed to this: "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care." When I saw this...

RUSH: Let's go back to February 22nd. I want you to hear me on this program. You know, I love going back to these archival sound bites of me. It's the only way I get to hear myself. You people get to hear me three hours a day. I'd have to listen to tape and so forth. But here's what I said, because people were asking me all over the place, "Hey, Rush, don't you really think it would be good if the US elects a black president? That's the end of racism! People could say we're no longer racist,"...

RUSH: Oh, looky here, Port St. Lucie. We have someone from Port St. Lucie, Florida. Heidi, I can't tell you how excited I am to have you on the program, hello.CALLER: I'm so excited to talk to you, too, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to paint Rush for President and Sarah Palin for Vice President on the back of my van, but my boyfriend won't let me. Anyways, what's Obama going do, chop our heads off if we don't wear underwear?RUSH: Well, it's not an Obama proposal. This is in Brooksville,...

RUSH: President Bush in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night said, "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States." He got huge cheers on that. "He weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba --" by the way, since so much of the media is now state-controlled and state-run, I just need to say...

RUSH: Is there one thing the government runs that makes a penny of profit? Is there one thing? They can't deliver mail with a profit. FedEx can, and does. They cannot run a railroad with a profit. Amtrak is a horrible money pit. I know even some of our favorite people love to ride the Acela train, the Speed Merchant from Washington to New York. But they're losing money and it continues to be subsidized. They can't run most states with a profit. California with its population and its natural...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You know, most people, when they read 1984, were scared. When Barack Obama read it, he started taking notes.""I'm thinking if I required every employee here at the EIB Network to wear underwear, I wouldn't know how the hell to check it. Well, Snerdley, you just can't make people drop trow." "I would not want anybody who would require payment to take care of their children to admit to being listeners to this program. It would mean,...

RUSH: Here's David in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to tell you an interesting story I know you'll be interested in. It's the first time I heard your voice. It's way before. I'd never heard of you, and you were local in Sacramento. I happened to have been reassigned up here in Sacramento with the defense department, and I had just finished doing a big investigation on a huge scandal...

RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It's great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. How are you doing?RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.CALLER: All right, now. I'll just get to my question. I'm just a little aggravated on why aren't Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats? Because the way I see it, the people who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us. And what amazes me is no one is. No one is standing...

RUSH: Byron York from the DC Examiner: "Norman Eisen, the White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with investigators on the staff of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley at Grassley's offices Wednesday morning. The investigators wanted to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. According to Grassley, Eisen revealed very, very little, refusing to answer many questions of fact put to him....

RUSH: Debbie in Jacksonville, Florida, hi, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm a longtime listener.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: And I just... Over the past few days, with the uprising in Iran, I have heard nobody even mention that this could probably be because Iraq is free and that the people in Iran want the same freedoms. And of course no one wants to give George Bush any kudos for that, but I really believe that that's what's going on.RUSH: Well, you may...

RUSH: Julian Epstein has appeared on an NBC cable channel this afternoon, Julian Epstein, Democrat strategerist, he spoke about President Bush criticizing Obama publicly last night on Guantanamo Bay and therapy for the inmates there. The question: "Julian, give me your take on Bush speaking out now."EPSTEIN: Republicans have not have an effective national spokesman, the head of the RNC has been a bit of a joke, it's been basically Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney, two very unpopular figures, so the...

RUSH: Bob in Auburn, Massachusetts, nice to have you with us here on Open Line Friday on Thursday. Hi.CALLER: Rush, glad to get to talk to you. Big fan.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Big, big fan. You know, I want to run the health care thing by you. I think people are missing the whole point here and maybe you're not, because I try to listen as much as I can but sometimes I don't. Obama really doesn't care about health care at all. He doesn't care if it costs $10 trillion. It has nothing to...

RUSH: The New York Times has run a story on President Obama's poll numbers. Now, the headline has changed from when the story was first posted on the Internet last night. The headline last night to the same story I'm about to share with you was this: "In Poll, Obama Seen as Ineffective on the Economy." That was very late last night. By the time people got up today and read the website, the headline has been changed to this: "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care." When I saw this...

RUSH: Let's go back to February 22nd. I want you to hear me on this program. You know, I love going back to these archival sound bites of me. It's the only way I get to hear myself. You people get to hear me three hours a day. I'd have to listen to tape and so forth. But here's what I said, because people were asking me all over the place, "Hey, Rush, don't you really think it would be good if the US elects a black president? That's the end of racism! People could say we're no longer racist,"...

RUSH: Oh, looky here, Port St. Lucie. We have someone from Port St. Lucie, Florida. Heidi, I can't tell you how excited I am to have you on the program, hello.CALLER: I'm so excited to talk to you, too, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to paint Rush for President and Sarah Palin for Vice President on the back of my van, but my boyfriend won't let me. Anyways, what's Obama going do, chop our heads off if we don't wear underwear?RUSH: Well, it's not an Obama proposal. This is in Brooksville,...

RUSH: President Bush in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night said, "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States." He got huge cheers on that. "He weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba --" by the way, since so much of the media is now state-controlled and state-run, I just need to say...

RUSH: Is there one thing the government runs that makes a penny of profit? Is there one thing? They can't deliver mail with a profit. FedEx can, and does. They cannot run a railroad with a profit. Amtrak is a horrible money pit. I know even some of our favorite people love to ride the Acela train, the Speed Merchant from Washington to New York. But they're losing money and it continues to be subsidized. They can't run most states with a profit. California with its population and its natural...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You know, most people, when they read 1984, were scared. When Barack Obama read it, he started taking notes.""I'm thinking if I required every employee here at the EIB Network to wear underwear, I wouldn't know how the hell to check it. Well, Snerdley, you just can't make people drop trow." "I would not want anybody who would require payment to take care of their children to admit to being listeners to this program. It would mean,...

RUSH: Here's David in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to tell you an interesting story I know you'll be interested in. It's the first time I heard your voice. It's way before. I'd never heard of you, and you were local in Sacramento. I happened to have been reassigned up here in Sacramento with the Defense Department, and I had just finished doing a big investigation on a huge scandal...

RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It's great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. How are you doing?RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.CALLER: All right, now. I'll just get to my question. I'm just a little aggravated on why aren't Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats? Because the way I see it, the people who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us. And what amazes me is no one is. No one is standing...

RUSH: Byron York from the DC Examiner: "Norman Eisen, the White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with investigators on the staff of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley at Grassley's offices Wednesday morning. The investigators wanted to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. According to Grassley, Eisen revealed very, very little, refusing to answer many questions of fact put to him....

RUSH: Debbie in Jacksonville, Florida, hi, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm a longtime listener.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: And I just... Over the past few days, with the uprising in Iran, I have heard nobody even mention that this could probably be because Iraq is free and that the people in Iran want the same freedoms. And of course no one wants to give George Bush any kudos for that, but I really believe that that's what's going on.RUSH: Well, you may...

RUSH: Julian Epstein has appeared on an NBC cable channel this afternoon. Julian Epstein, Democrat strategerist, he spoke about President Bush criticizing Obama publicly last night on Guantanamo Bay and therapy for the inmates there. The question: "Julian, give me your take on Bush speaking out now."EPSTEIN: Republicans have not had an effective national spokesman, the head of the RNC has been a bit of a joke, it's been basically Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney, two very unpopular figures, so the...

RUSH: Bob in Auburn, Massachusetts, nice to have you with us here on Open Line Friday on Thursday. Hi.CALLER: Rush, glad to get to talk to you. Big fan.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Big, big fan. You know, I want to run the health care thing by you. I think people are missing the whole point here and maybe you're not, because I try to listen as much as I can but sometimes I don't. Obama really doesn't care about health care at all. He doesn't care if it costs $10 trillion. It has nothing to...

RUSH: The New York Times has run a story on President Obama's poll numbers. Now, the headline has changed from when the story was first posted on the Internet last night. The headline last night to the same story I'm about to share with you was this: "In Poll, Obama Seen as Ineffective on the Economy." That was very late last night. By the time people got up today and read the website, the headline has been changed to this: "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care." When I saw this...

RUSH: Let's go back to February 22nd. I want you to hear me on this program. You know, I love going back to these archival sound bites of me. It's the only way I get to hear myself. You people get to hear me three hours a day. I'd have to listen to tape and so forth. But here's what I said, because people were asking me all over the place, "Hey, Rush, don't you really think it would be good if the US elects a black president? That's the end of racism! People could say we're no longer racist,"...

RUSH: Oh, looky here, Port St. Lucie. We have someone from Port St. Lucie, Florida. Heidi, I can't tell you how excited I am to have you on the program, hello.CALLER: I'm so excited to talk to you, too, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to paint Rush for President and Sarah Palin for Vice President on the back of my van, but my boyfriend won't let me. Anyways, what's Obama going do, chop our heads off if we don't wear underwear?RUSH: Well, it's not an Obama proposal. This is in Brooksville,...

RUSH: President Bush in Erie, Pennsylvania, last night said, "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States." He got huge cheers on that. "He weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba --" by the way, since so much of the media is now state-controlled and state-run, I just need to say...

RUSH: Is there one thing the government runs that makes a penny of profit? Is there one thing? They can't deliver mail with a profit. FedEx can, and does. They cannot run a railroad with a profit. Amtrak is a horrible money pit. I know even some of our favorite people love to ride the Acela train, the Speed Merchant from Washington to New York. But they're losing money and it continues to be subsidized. They can't run most states with a profit. California with its population and its natural...

Rush's Morning Update: Don't Look!June 19, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer First Lady Michelle Obama has a message for hard-hit communities:Don't look to the feds for help. "Washington can only do so much," she told a group of philanthropists. "Communities are built and rebuilt by regular people." She said, "Folks working in businesses, philanthropists, foundations, and volunteers" all need to come together to solve problems.Michelle,you've...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You know, most people, when they read 1984, were scared. When Barack Obama read it, he started taking notes.""I'm thinking if I required every employee here at the EIB Network to wear underwear, I wouldn't know how the hell to check it. Well, Snerdley, you just can't make people drop trow." "I would not want anybody who would require payment to take care of their children to admit to being listeners to this program. It would mean,...